‘The Tap’ Yale University Period Drama Pilot Not Going Forward At USA Network

20 June 2017

Deadline TV

USA Network has made a decision on its last outstanding pilot, passing on period drama The Tap, from Rob Reiner and Andrew Lenchewski. The project, originally set up at USA in 2014 and ordered to pilot in 2016, was set at the most famous secret society in American college history, Yale's Skull and Bones. It took place around 1969, during the height of America's cultural and political revolution — a time when the campus is being upended by antiwar protests, race riots and…